The UK competitiveness agenda has been at the forefront of business and government thinking since the Brexit countdown began in 2017. The African continent and its vast potential has steadily risen up the agenda over the last decade. Combine these interests, and four years on we are seeing recognition of the important role English law and legal services play in maintaining UK competitiveness – and increasing support from the government to promote them
Andrew Skipper
The government recently issued its Global Britain in a Competitive Age: the Integrated Review of Security, Defence, Development and Foreign Policy (read: post-Brexit world). This review has come in for much criticism, not least when coupled with the dramatic decrease in overseas aid and, for those who see Africa as key in the coming years, its lack of detail or focus on the continent.